swimming times are all world records so far. is it really the new suits? the mens 4x100 freestyle relay saw the canadians shave 4 secs off their time, beat the previous world record and still finish 6th?

Is the water rigged? Can they make it more or less dense to give more exciting results? The chinese have been firing thousands of rockets in the air to stop the rain, why not spike the water?

This is the tournament everybody has trained for, this is where all of them are at their best, this is where it matters. That's probably it, in combination with the suits. You see a lot of new WRs every big tournament, just because that's the moment people train for and are at their best.

Originally posted by bckdrflush
swimming times are all world records so far. is it really the new suits? the mens 4x100 freestyle relay saw the canadians shave 4 secs off their time, beat the previous world record and still finish 6th?

Is the water rigged? Can they make it more or less dense to give more exciting results? The chinese have been firing thousands of rockets in the air to stop the rain, why not spike the water?

Swimming is funny, i bet there will be some doping problems at testing etc. Moreover, speed in a pool is often connected with pool depth, temperature of the wather, steepness of floor in a pool etc.
At end there is a motivation involved and new special suits.

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I have no good feelings towards the Olympics this year. Whose bright idea was it to give it to a country that has forced labor camps? The country is an absolute disgrace and the idea that we should welcome and celebrate it is abhorrent.

We will look back upon this and see it as no better than the 1936 Olympics.

It's not a fallacy to compare Nazi Germany and China. We're talking about a country that has a great big picture on Tienanmen Gate of the greatest mass murderer of all time, has concentration camps, steals organs from the living, murders and oppresses it's own people and lets' not forget as well as being particularly disgusting itself it also arms Sudan, Zimbabwe and Burma.

Politics Yoghi? Murdering your own people is politics to you? Oppressing them and making them slaves is politics? It's not politics, it's basic human dignity. We are talking about one of the foulest regimes that has ever existed on this planet. This isn't about politics.

Concentration camps aren't politics.

China has a politics issue like Ted Bundy had sexist issues.

We handed China, a country that revers the biggest mass murderer of all time, a propaganda coup. I don't watch it for the same reasons I don't watch the Triumph of the Will.